loss是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 丧失， 遗失； 损失， 损耗， 亏损； 失败，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's not the first loss I have had in my life, Mr. Murdstone,' repliedPeggotty, trembling from head to foot.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Miss Taylor's loss which first brought grief.
-- In that respect Mrs. Weston's loss had been important.
-- While you were in the smallest degree wavering, I said nothing about it, because I would not influence; but it would have been the loss of a friend to me.
-- 'Oh yes, sir,' cried she with ready sympathy, 'how you must miss her!And dear Emma, too! What a dreadful loss to you both! I have been so grieved for you. I could not imagine how you could possibly do without her. It is a sad change indeed. But I hope she is pretty well, sir.'
-- She was very feverish and had a bad sore throat: Mrs. Goddard was full of care and af-fection, Mr. Perry was talked of, and Harriet herself was too ill and low to resist the authority which excluded her from this delightful engagement, though she could not speak of her loss without many tears.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And thus the abasement had been exaltation, and the loss gain.
-- The spacious ends of the building, answering ecclesiastically to nave and chancel extremities, were fenced off with hurdles, the sheep being all collected in a crowd within these two enclosures; and in one angle a catching-pen was formed, in which three or four sheep were continuously kept ready for the shearers to seize without loss of time.
-- The clean, sleek creature arose from its fleece how perfectly like Aphrodite rising from the foam should have been seen to be realized looking startled and shy at the loss of its garment, which lay on the floor in one soft cloud, united throughout, the portion visible being the inner surface only, which, never before exposed, was white as snow, and without flaw or blemish of the minutest kind.
-- But limitation of the capacity is never recognized as a loss by the loser therefrom: in this attribute moral or 脙娄sthetic poverty contrasts plausibly with material, since those who suffer do not mind it, whilst those who mind it soon cease to suffer.
-- Your dear love, Bathsheba, is such a vast thing beside your pity, that the loss of your pity as well as your love is no great addition to my sorrow, nor does the gain of your pity make it sensibly less.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this emigration I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident and knew not how to reproduce it.
-- He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
-- But death was no evil to me if the loss of Elizabeth were balanced with it, and I therefore, with a contented and even cheerful countenance, agreed with my father that if my cousin would consent, the ceremony should take place in ten days, and thus put, as I imagined, the seal to my fate.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having never possessed the courage to get himself into such a situation before, Charles was at a loss as to how toact.
-- A Cause they loved as much asthey loved their men, a Cause they served with their hands and their hearts, a Cause they talked about, thought about,dreamed about a Cause to which they would sacrifice these men if need be, and bear their loss as proudly as the menbore their battle flags.
-- The few who came tothem talked about how they went to the university with Ashley and what a fine soldier he was or spoke in respectfultones of Charles and how great a loss to Atlanta his death had been.
-- True, the South hadsuffered a sickening loss when Stonewall Jackson had been fatally wounded at Chancellorsville.
-- Vicksburg's loss would be no catastrophe if Lee won in the East.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe was evidently made uncomfortable by what he supposed to be my loss of appetite, and took a thoughtful bite out of his slice, which he didn't seem to enjoy.
-- There was such a malignant enjoyment in her utterance of the last words, and she broke into such a disagreeable laugh, that I was at a loss what to say.
-- We were at a loss to find a suitable attendant for her, until a circumstance happened conveniently to relieve us.
-- "For the loss of his services."
-- But if you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child--what come to the forge--and ever the best of friends!--"O dear good Joe, whom I was so ready to leave and so unthankful to, I see you again, with your muscular blacksmith's arm before your eyes, and your broad chest heaving, and your voice dying away.
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